It’s perfect.

It’s totally a matter of age. Kids these days have no idea how good they have it, and don’t realize they need to get off my lawn. Shakes cain in the air /s

We’re working on promoting that Stem Bolt. It recently got an excellent recommendation from Admiral Janeway.

I was always a PC gamer, and think the old, often modded, independently run servers were much more fun than the soul-less matchmaking I see on most modern games.

Absolutely. If one was lucky enough to have a buddy with a server setup, that was by far the coolest option.

At least he still outranks Ensign Kim.

There’s a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.

Microsoft was like “chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable”. At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming. Honestly an argument good be made it was the most economical way to play online, on general - considering the console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only need to buy one copy of Halo.

You just know that’s the last thing somebody saw…

“Follow my path and you’ll be fine.”

Later, at a Republic Tribunal:

“… and obviously no sane pilot on training mission would ever consider attempting to navigate those obstactles without weeks of study on advance, and so I exhort the jury not to consider leniency, but to find the defendant guilty of first degree premeditated murder of their wingman pilot in training. The prosecution rests this - quite frankly open-and-shut - case.”

“When… This song… Is gone…!”

I think my favorite tale from this book is the one with the two belligerent assholes (who confront Luke and then ObiWan), being various forms of belligerent and assholes in other contexts. It’s surreal, but fitting.